History NightmareFuel / Rayman2TheGreatEscape

* The long swimming section in Whale Bay can be ''very'' tense if you're at all afraid of water. Rayman and Carmen the Whale take a long route through a deep underwater cave to escape from the Robo-Pirates, with her providing OxygenatedUnderwaterBubbles for him to breathe. However, the bubbles attract [[PiranhaProblem nearby Piranhas]] who try to take them; forcing Rayman to fight them off in order to keep breathing. Often times, you'll only ''barely'' have enough time to make the next bubble due to how quickly the OxygenMeter drains; lose too many, and you'll drown.

** Oh, and... that "Mini-Jano" you encounter halfway through the level and in The Sanctuary of Stone and Fire? [[EatenAlive He will eat you alive if you get too close]], respawning you at the last Green Lum.
* The giant spider you face at the beginning of the Canopy level has no doubt scared some players. [[PsychoStrings The music]] that [[https://youtu.be/xIZzz9RFpsI accompanies that part of the level]] doesn't help matters, either.
* When Razorbeard tries to lure Rayman as part of his plan to finally kill him, he uses Globox as bait, tying him upside down to an antenna as he's about to shoot at him with the Grolgoth. He would have killed Globox if Rayman had come just a second later.
* The Zombie Chickens.

* The Tomb of the Ancients is a creepy world of graves, ghosts, and zombies, which forces Rayman to undergo a symbolic death -- first leaping into a grave, then crossing a river into the underworld. But it's the end that really sells it. After crossing the river of toxic muck, Rayman reaches the [[DeadlyEuphemism Technical Check-Up]], where the pirates conduct hideous experiments on eliminating free will altogether, mind-controlling his friend Clark in an attempt to kill Rayman. It drives home the violence the pirates have done, as not even death is allowed to happen naturally anymore.
** The music -- especially the PsychoStrings bits -- is creepy on both the N64 and Dreamcast versions, but the Dreamcast version is just unnerving.
** This level also is full of acid, tombs, spiders and most of all- loads of Zombie Chickens.
* Ha ha, what a wacky game where you fight an army of [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Robo-Pirates]]! Except that the pirates are hardly ever PlayedForLaughs, except occasionally in some of Razorbeard's antics. On the contrary, they're coded as [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil colonialist slavers]], with the innocents they capture confined in horrible conditions. They've come to the Glade of Dreams to brutally extract resources with no regard to its native inhabitants, and their reign has been so destructive that large swaths of the world are now toxic and uninhabitable. Even worse, if not for Ly's quick thinking, they would have won altogether before the start of the game.

* The Tomb of the Ancients is a creepy world of graves, ghosts, and zombies, which forces Rayman to undergo a symbolic death -- first leaping into a grave, then crossing a river into the underworld. But it's the end that really sells it. After crossing the river of toxic muck, Rayman reaches the [[DeadlyEuphemism Technical Check-Up]], where the pirates conduct hideous experiments on eliminating free will altogether, mind-controlling his friend Clark to kill Rayman. It drives home the violence the pirates have done, as not even death is allowed to happen naturally anymore.

* The Tomb of the Ancients is a creepy world of graves, ghosts, and zombies, which forces Rayman to undergo a symbolic death -- first leaping into a grave, then crossing a river into the underworld. But it's the end that really sells it. After crossing the river of toxic muck, Rayman reaches the [[DeadlyEuphemism Technical Check-Up]], where the pirates conduct hideous experiments on eliminating free will altogether. It drives home the violence the pirates have done, as not even death is allowed to happen naturally anymore.

* When Razorbeard tries to lure Rayman as part of his plan to finally kill him, he uses Globox as bait, tying him upside down to an antenna as he's about to shoot at him with the Grolgoth. He would have killed Globox if Rayman would have come just a second too late.

* The music in the Tomb of the Ancients -- especially the PsychoStrings bits -- is creepy on both the N64 and Dreamcast versions, but the Dreamcast version is just unnerving.
** This level also is full of acid, tombs, spiders and most of all- loads of Zombie Chickens.

* The ([[MeaningfulName aptly named]]) "[[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Cave of Bad Dreams]]" is spooky enough to begin with. You eventually have to escape Jano, a legless, one-eyed monster that intends to eat you. This is done by sliding down an obstacle filled course while the camera is ''[[MouthCam framed by the monster's drooling teeth following you]]''

** Oh, and... that "Mini-Jano" you encounter halfway through the level and in The Sanctuary of Stone and Fire? [[EatenAlive He will eat you alive if you get too close]], respawning you at the last checkpoint.

* Piranhas that look much more creepy than in the first game. Most of their body is a huge mouth, studded with long and sharp teeth. In fact, their design is a bit like [[Literature/TheLangoliers the Langoliers]] from the novel of the same name by Creator/StephenKing.

* The music in the Tomb of the Ancients -- especially the PsychoStrings bits -- is creepy on both the N64 and Dreamcast versions, but the Dreamcast version is just unnerving.

* The ([[MeaningfulName aptly named]]) "[[IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace Cave of Bad Dreams]]" is spooky enough to begin with. You eventually have to escape Jano, a legless, one-eyed monster that intends to eat you. This is done by sliding down an obstacle filled course while the camera is ''[[MouthCam framed by the monster's drooling teeth following you]]'' (photo).

* Piranhas that look much more creepy than in the first game. Most of their body is a huge mouth, studded with long and sharp teeth. In fact, their design is a bit like Literature/TheLangoliers from the novel of the same name by Creator/StephenKing.

* Piranhas that look much more creepy than in the first game. Most of their body is a huge mouth, studded with long and sharp teeth. Their design is a bit like the langoliers from the novel of the same name by Stephen king.

* The way Foutch sneaks up on Rayman and slugs him so forcefully he ''loses'' one of his "permanent" powers: flying. Yes, he hits Rayman so hard that ''Rayman forgets how to/is unable to fly!'' Damn.